Mobile phone interventions in the healthcare of chronic diseases

Chronic diseases are a major issue for healthcare both by the alarming increase of the number of new cases but also from the point of view of the negative consequences of prognosis and quality of life. Available treatments, although effective for most chronic diseases cannot guarantee the decrease of complications, as long as the best healthcare will be provided only by specialized centers. In the last decades, the integration of IT instruments at every level of healthcare reconfigured significantly the manner in which the care is offered and can ensure valuable and profitable remote healthcare far from the hospital. Successfully explored in several states, the interventions mobile-health confirmed through various software and applications that the integration of mobile technology in healthcare may be a viable manner to complete and improve the current strategies for the efficient management of chronic diseases. This paper aims to review the current state of art in a common field for the evolution of medicine, namely healthcare systems and mobile-health. For the presentation of the most important aspects that mobile-health entails in the management of chronic diseases we selected liver cirrhosis.